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Local Panama communities work with archaeologists on historic land rights 09 February 2021
The question of land property titles is a common source of conflict between indigenous communities and federal authorities all over the Americas. A ne...
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Archaeology students make museum exhibition on Sugar: ‘Before this I had no idea how sugar was produced’ 01 February 2021
When following a course on archaeology of the Crusaders, five archaeology students were presented the unique opportunity to create a small exhibition ...
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Book Landscapes of Survival sheds new light on the habitation of the Jordan deserts 22 January 2021
December 2020 saw the crowning publication of the Landscapes of Survival project by Professor Peter Akkermans. Its main topic is human habitation in m...
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Leiden archaeologists discover an early form of money from Prehistoric Central Europe 20 January 2021
People in the Early Bonze Age used bronze artefacts as a means of payment. This is the conclusion reached by archaeologists Maikel Kuijpers and Catali...
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Academia in motion: a different form of recognition and reward 18 January 2021
A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria....
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New publication affirms academic legacy of Hanna Stöger 13 January 2021
In summer 2018 classical archaeologist Hanna Stöger passed away. At that moment she was in the midst of several cutting-edge research projects on the ...
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NWA-grant for project 'Streaming the past' 21 December 2020
Researchers from the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Archaeology, with the support of the communication departments of these Faculties and th...
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NWA subsidy for four Leiden science communication projects 21 December 2020
A festival that combines music and science, and a digital 'time machine' for science history: four Leiden projects that focus on science communication...
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Investigating a prehistoric Pan-European culture with an NWO grant: ‘One of the most transformative periods in European prehistory’ 11 December 2020
Archaeologist Quentin Bourgeois received an NWO Vidi grant to investigate the emergence of a pan-European culture in the third millennium BC. ‘We see ...
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New Director of Operations Niels Laurens: ‘I am grateful there are people who chose to do archaeology as their profession.’ 02 December 2020
Niels Laurens recently started as the new Director of Operations at the Faculty of Archaeology as well as the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs...
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Prehistoric hunters from the North Sea used human bones as weapons 02 December 2020
Over the years, many spectacular archaeological finds have been washed ashore on the Dutch coast. Among these a large assemblage of barbed points made...
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Data Management and the Gortyn Project: ‘With great data comes great responsibility’ 02 December 2020
The world is becoming increasingly digitised, and the information one has easy access to is often rather overwhelming. In particular, the accumulative...
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Skype a Scientist: talking about ancient bones with people all over the world 02 December 2020
Skype a Scientist is an online platform that matches scientists with classrooms and families around the world. At the start of the corona crisis, PhD ...
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‘Involve the local community in archaeology’ 27 November 2020
Local perceptions, attachments and knowledge are often not considered in the methodology of archaeology when researching a site, argues PhD-candidate ...
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Neanderthals could tolerate smoke 24 November 2020
The idea that modern humans displaced Neanderthals because they were better protected against toxic smoke components is now under fire. An earlier stu...